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Conference on climate changes held in Gdańsk
2015.07.08 -
Held 17-19 June 2015 at the University of Gdańsk, the international conference on Climate variability and human impacts in Central and Eastern Europe in the last two millennia (http://www.climate2k.ug.edu.pl/) was attended by nearly 100 participants from 14 countries. The conference took place under the auspices of PAGES (Past Global Changes) international project as part of Euro-Med2k…
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A study visit in Bornholm
2015.07.07 -
On 19–26 April 2015 the MPOV Project took me to the Bornholm Museum in Rønne on a preliminary survey of its collections. Thanks to the kindness of Finn–Ole Nielsen of the Bornholm Museum, and to the transport offered by the research team from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (Marta Bura and Janusz Janowski), I could search for analogies to →Migration Peri…
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26. Symposium Grundprobleme, Straubing 3-7.12.2014
2015.01.27 -
Five researchers from the MPOV project took part in the Internationales Symposium Grundprobleme der frühgeschichtlichen Entwicklung im mittleren Donauraum - Wandel durch Migration? held on 3-7 December 2014 in Straubing in southeastern Bavaria and gave their presentations: Prof. M. Mączyńska - Neues über die Völkerwanderungszeit in Pommern; Prof. J. Schuster - Ein Kommen und Gehen?…
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Opening of the exhibition "Treasures from Suchań"
2014.12.05 -
13 November 2014 was the grand opening by the National Museum in Szczecin of the “Treasures of Suchań” exhibition presenting the results of interdisciplinary studies made within the Migration Period between Odra and Vistula project. Opening speeches were given by Lech Karwowski, Director of NMS, dr Bartłomiej Rogalski, Exhibition Curator, and Professor Aleksander Bursche. The highligh…
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The Hanging Cave at Kroczyce – the end of fieldwork season 2014
2014.11.19 -
The Hanging Cave at Kroczyce – the end of fieldwork season 2014 The second season of archaeological investigation of the Hanged Man Cave at Kroczyce ended on 31 August. This year’s research was carried out only inside the cave. Similarly as in the preceding season most of the effort went into removing the mass of sand and rock rubble, up to 1.50 m in thickness, left beh…
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19th General Congress of Polish Historians
2014.11.04 -
Several scholarly contributions relevant to our Project were presented during the 19th General Congress of Polish Historians, held 17-12 September 2014 at the Szczecin University under the Honorary Patronage of President Bronisław Komorowski, during a special session dedicated to “Mediterranean Europe” and “Baltic Europe”: prof. dr hab. Maciej Salamon (Jagiellonian Univers…
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65. Sachsensymposion in Warsaw
2014.09.20 -
On 13-17 September 2014 the University of Warsaw played host to the 65th edition of the prestigious International Sachsensymposion, the first to be held in Poland. This year its theme was: Interacting Barbarians. Contacts, Exchange and Migrations in the First Millennium AD. Founded in Cuxhaven in 1949 the International Sachsensymposion is an association of researchers with interest in the archaeo…
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Suchań 2014 - end of excavation season
2014.09.05 -
The second season of excavation at Suchań, distr. Stargard, is now over. This year, 600 m2 were explored, resulting in the discovery of eight settlement features of Oksywie archaeological culture from the Late Pre-Roman Period (2nd-1st cc. BC): a pit-house, three hearths, a recessed feature interpreted as the slag pit of a furnace, alternately, an element of a blacksmith’s forge, conf…
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Suchań and the Hanging Cave at Kroczyce 2014
2014.08.08 -
2nd August opened the new season of excavation at Suchań and in the Hanging Cave at Kroczyce. The archaeological team at Suchań headed by dr Bartłomiej Rogalski of the Archaeological Division of the National Museum in Szczecin includes mgr Szymon Modzelewski, PhD student at the Institute of Archaeology, and 18 students from the University of Warsaw and the University of Szczecin. This year&rs…
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Białograd 2014 -paleobotanic research
2014.07.22 -
On 13-15 May, and subsequently, on 2 July 2014, the team from the Laboratory of Palaeoecology and Archaeobotany University of Gdańsk, with technical support from dr Michał Woszczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, and dr hab. Wojciech Tylmann, Institute of Geography University of Gdańsk, secured sediment cores from lakes Byszyno and Rybackie to the south of Białogard, in a region with evidence on occ…